“And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors.”
“Together a brick and a blanket create the perfect metaphor for life. Will you be a brick and make something of your life, or be a blanket and sleep your life away?”
Source: A bit of rubbish about a Brick and a Blanket
“The humanoids told Don that if he went home with a whore, she would cook him a meal of petroleum and coal products at fancy prices. And then, while he ate them, she would talk dirty about how fresh and full of natural juices the food was, even though the food was fake.”
Source: Breakfast Of Champions
“Most people, including yourself, apparently, think The Moldau is about a river. It is not. It is a metaphor. It is about the progress of life, from its fragile beginnings through its joys and turbulence and on to its end, its magnificent end.”
Source: Death and Transfiguration
“Work hard and succeed in life. When you become a success, be kind and let your success glorify God, your Creator.”
Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“That’s what comes of hungering for something; you forget to check if it’s rotten before you gobble it down”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“You need something," he said, and when I stared at him, he added, "Your face."
"My face?"
"It's in need of my kisses.”
Source: White Hot Kiss
“Hunger, Red—to sate a hunger or to stoke it, to feel hunger as a furnace, to trace its edges like teeth—is this a thing you, singly, know? Have you ever had a hunger that whetted itself on what you fed it, sharpened so keen and bright that it might split you open, break a new thing out? Sometimes I think that’s what I have instead of friends.”
Source: This Is How You Lose the Time War
“The thing with heat is, no matter how cold you are, no matter how much you need warmth, it always, eventually, becomes too much.”
Source: Glass Sword
“But I am the songbird running out of air, and I must breathe.”
Source: This Is How You Lose the Time War